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Twistetal is a municipality in
Waldeck-Frankenberg Waldeck-Frankenberg is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Höxter, Kassel, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Hochsauerland. History The district was created in 1972 by mergin ...
in northwest
Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...
,
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, southwest of Bad Arolsen.


Geography


Location

The community lies on the river Twiste, a tributary to the Diemel, itself a tributary to the
Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports o ...
. Twistetal is only a short way downstream from, and southwest of, the Twistesee, a
man-made lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...
. It is located about 6 kilometers southwest from Bad Arolsen.


Neighbouring communities

Twistetal borders in the north and east on the town of Bad Arolsen, in the southeast on the town of Waldeck, in the southwest on the town of
Korbach Korbach (), officially the Hanseatic City of Korbach (German language, German: Hansestadt Korbach), is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany. It is over a thousand years old and is located on the German Timber-Frame Ro ...
and in the west on the community of
Diemelsee The Diemelsee or Diemel Reservoir () is a reservoir with a surface area of 1.65 km² and about capacity of 19.9 million m³ on the River Diemel in the counties of Waldeck-Frankenberg in North Hesse, and Hochsauerlandkreis, Westpha ...
(all in Waldeck-Frankenberg).


Constituent communities

Twistetal consists of the following centres: *Berndorf *Elleringhausen *Gembeck *Mühlhausen *Nieder-Waroldern *Ober-Waroldern *Twiste (main town and administrative seat)


Politics

The community's mayor is Stefan Dittmann ( FDP), elected in 2018. Twistetal's council is made up of 23 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held in March 2021: * CDU 7 seats * FDP 5 seats * SPD 4 seats *Wählergemeinschaft Twistetal 4 seats * Greens 3 seat Note: ''Wählergemeinschaft Twistetal'' is a citizens' coalition.


Infrastructure

Through Twistetal runs Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') 252 from Korbach to Bad Arolsen. Furthermore, Twiste is a stop on the RegionalExpress
railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
service from
Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...
to Korbach.


Outing destinations

Well known points of interest nearby are the Twistesee in the community itself, and a bit farther afield, Bad Arolsen.


References


External links


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{{Authority control Waldeck-Frankenberg Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont